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Netflix is expanding its library of live television with the YouTube talk show Hot Ones, hosted by Sean Evans. The long-running series features Evans interviewing the world's biggest celebrities, often Hollywood actors, as they eat chicken wings with increasingly hot sauces. Recent guest highlights include Jennifer Lawrence and Pedro Pascal. Hilarious moments are often turned into popular memes, forever etched into the pop culture lexicon, but the Hot Ones is also known for its shockingly nuanced interview questions and subsequent answers. Netflix wants to record a live version of the hit online series, according to a new report.

Variety reports that Netflix is in talks with Buzzfeed to produce live show episodes of Hot Ones, with Sean Evans returning to host. The new format will be exclusively produced for Netflix, unavailable elsewhere. In addition to YouTube, most episodes of the interview series are available on Hulu and Peacock. Netflix is...

Michael B. Jordan is following in the footsteps of Steve McQueen and Pierce Brosnan, as he will star in and direct a remake of “The Thomas Crown Affair” for Amazon MGM.

The new project reunites Jordan with MGM after the release of his directorial debut “Creed III,” which was a box office success last year with $276 million grossed worldwide. Jordan will produce alongside Elizabeth Raposo through his production company Outlier Society, which has a first-look deal with Amazon MGM.

Released in 1968 and directed by Norman Jewison, “The Thomas Crown Affair” starred McQueen as an art thief who falls in love with an insurance investigator, played by Faye Dunaway, hired to track him down. John McTiernan then directed a remake in 1999 starring Brosnan and Rene Russo in the lead roles.

Drew Pearce will write the script for the new “Affair” from a previous draft by Wes Tooke and Justin Britt-Gibson. Patrick McCormick...

Klaudia Reynicke’s Berlin prize-winning family drama Reinas has sold around the world, including to the US, ahead of it screening in the Piazza Grande section of next month’s Locarno Film Festival.

The feature, directed by Swiss-Peruvian Reynicke, has sold to Outsider Pictures (US), Films We Like (Canada), Penny Black Media (worldwide airlines), Ads Service, Estinfilm (Estonia), Belas Artes Grupo (Brazil), Falcon Pictures (Indonesia) and Arsenal Filmverleih.

Distribution in Switzerland will be handled by Filmcoopi, BTeam Pictures in Spain and Tondero Distribución in Peru, releasing early in September in Switzerland and Spain and late August in Peru. Reinas will...

A Family Affair explores family dynamics better than The Idea of You. A Family Affair's "meet cute" is more believable than The Idea of You. The Idea of You ranks higher due to better critical reception, performances, and script.

Netflixs rom-com A Family Affair has a similar premise to Prime Videos The Idea of You, but it did one thing better than Anne Hathaways successful rom-com. The genre of rom-com has been going through a resurgence with movies that have captivated the audience and, in some cases, have also won critics over. One that was a hit with critics and general audiences was The Idea of You, directed by Michael Showalter and based on the novel of the same name by Robinne Lee, with Anne Hathaway and Nicholas Galitzine as its main actors.

The Idea of You follows Solne (Hathaway), a divorced single mother who, after meeting boy band member Hayes Campbell (Galitzine) at Coachella,...

"A Family Affair" is a 2024 romantic comedy film on Netflix that features an all-star cast. The movie stars Zac Efron as Chris Cole, a famous movie star who begins dating his assistant's older mother, Brooke, played by Nicole Kidman. Other cast members include Joey King, Liza Koshy, Kathy Bates, and Shirley MacLaine.

The renaissance of the modern rom-com continues with Netflix's A Family Affair, which features an impressive cast of notable actors and actresses such as Zac Efron and Nicole Kidman. The 2024 romantic comedy film, directed by Richard Lagravenese and written by Carrie Solomon, chronicles the story of a young woman (Joey King) whose mother (Kidman) enters a relationship with her boss (Efron), much to her dismay. Unfortunately, as teased in the trailer for A Family Affair, King's character learns of the scandalous (which is only so due to the couple's age gap) affair when she walks in on them about to have sex.

The Bold and the Beautiful (B&b) spoilers reveal that Eric Forrester (John McCook) and Donna Logan Forrester (Jennifer Gareis) are happy and well right now.

However, it’s been awhile since Eric has recovered from his deadly illness. What will be the next storyline for this couple? Could it involve Sheila Carter Sharpe (Kimberlin Brown)? Not too long ago,

Eric almost seemed to be defending Sheila. So, let’s talk about what could happen next.

The Bold And The Beautiful Spoilers – Sheila Carter’s Wedded Bliss

B&b spoilers reveal that Sheila is now a married woman. Sheila ended up being rescued by Deacon Sharpe (Sean Kanan) and John “Finn” Finnegan (Tanner Novlan) after the Janet Webber aka “Sugar” (also played by Kimberlin Brown) situation. Deacon was so thrilled to find

Sheila alive that he wanted to seal the deal right away.

B&b Spoilers – Death Celebration

When everyone thought that Sheila was dead,...

In the initial draft of The Empire Strikes Back, Han Solo’s response to Leia’s “I love you” was an awkward “Just remember that, ’cause I’ll be back”. Upon filming the line, director Irvin Kershner realized there was something wrong with the Solo’s response, as it undermined the suspense about whether he’d survive the carbonate chamber or not.

This prompted them to test various alternatives but it was the “I Know“, suggested by Harrison Ford, which clicked with both Kershner and later the fans. However, George Lucas was initially against this change, and it wasn’t until a test screening that Lucas would eventually give in.

George Lucas Feared Han Solo’s “I Know” Would Get a Bad Laugh From Fans A still from The Empire Strikes Back | 20th Century Studios

Harrison Ford‘s two-word response to Carrie Fisher’s “I Love You” in The Empire Strikes Back...

The Netflix docuseries Ashley Madison: Sex, Lies & Scandal covers the Ashley Madison data breach and its impact on couple Sam and Nia Rader. Despite the scandal, Sam and Nia Rader worked through marital issues and remained together. The couple plans to release a book sharing their story beyond the Ashley Madison scandal.

Netflix's Ashley Madison: Sex, Lies & Scandal documents the data breach of the Canadian online dating service Ashley Madison and how it affected the famous vlogging couple, Sam and Nia Rader. The 2024 Netflix documentary features three episodes covering the infamous Ashley Madison data breach in July and August 2015, which occurred when an anonymous group that called itself "The Impact Team" hacked into the website and stole its user data. They announced what they had done and threatened to release the information if Ashley Madison didn't shut down. The company refused, so, more than 60 gigabytes of user data was leaked.

Netflix’s Tom Brady Roast show was a star-studded affair with popular comedians and friends of the former NFL quarterback appearing at the event. Kevin Hart hosted the show with Nikki Glaser, Tony Hinchcliffe Sam Jay, Bert Kreischer, and Jeff Ross joining the fun. Brady’s NFL buddies Rob Gronkowski, Randy Moss, and Drew Bledsoe were also present to poke fun at their friend.

Tom Brady takes the stage on his roast show on Netflix

The event also featured surprise guests including Ben Affleck, Will Farrell, and Kim Kardashian. When the latter came on stage, the audience booed her and Kardashian had to wait for the crowd to calm down. It seems Netflix has now removed that part of the show and fans are voicing their opinions about whether this was the right thing to do.

Netflix Has Edited Out Kim Kardashian Being Booed From The Tom Brady Roast Show...

Strand Releasing has acquired North American rights from sales company Films Boutique to tender coming-of-age drama “Young Hearts” by Belgian newcomer Anthony Schatteman, which recently launched from the Berlin Film Festival.

Schatteman’s standout debut follows a 13-year-old boy named Elias, who feels drawn to his new neighbor, Alexander, and must overcome his conflicted feelings about being attracted to another boy. “Young Hearts” won a special mention in the Generation Kplus section of the Berlinale in February and has now been selected by Cannes Écran Junior, the Cannes Film Festival sidebar section showcasing films for all audiences that have a specific cultural and educational value for younger viewers.

The film will soon have its North American premiere at the Seattle International Film Festival in May.

“Casting directors take note: Lou Goossens [who plays Elias] in this first feature film role is an actor to watch out for,” wrote Variety critic Catherine Bray in her “Young Hearts” review,...

Fozzy, the metal band fronted by pro-wrestler Chris Jericho, have announced a 25th anniversary tour that’s set to launch this fall.

The 15-date trek kicks off October 3rd in Woodstock, Georgia, and runs through October 21st in Cleveland, Ohio. The Nocturnal Affair and Clozure will provide support.

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“It’s hard to believe that a band that was once accused of being a ‘wrestler’s vanity project,’ has now amassed six Top 10 Mainstream Rock Radio hits, released eight albums, toured the world in over 20 countries, and earned a Gold Record…...

Generation, the Berlin Film Festival sidebar for children and youth films, has announced this year’s winners unveiling the picks from both the Generation 14plus (for teen and older viewers) and the youth jury for the Generation Kplus (kids and tweens) sections.

Sasha Nathwani’s coming-of-age drama Last Swim, about an Iranian-British teen confronting a major life decision, took the Crystal Bear for best film in the Generation 14plus section, with Kim Hye-young’s It’s Okay!, about an orphaned young dancer, winning the top prize for Generation Kplus. Both prizes were awarded by youth juries of young filmgoers.

In its statement, the 14plus jury called Last Swim “a story about the beauty of life and of things coming to an end. It is a film that does not shy away from portraying the messy and consuming feelings that can arise when you know your dreams may not be fulfilled. However,...

Reacher season 3 will feature the title character's signature traits of kicking butt, being smart, and saving the day. The next season will be based on the book Persuader and will involve Reacher going undercover to rescue an informant from his past. Frances Neagley will return in season 3, diverging from the source material in the Lee Child novels.

Reacher showrunner Nick Santora teases more details about season 3. In its recently concluded second installment, Reacher season 2 focused on Alan Ritchson's titular character teaming up with Frances Neagley (Maria Sten), Karla Dixon (Serinda Swan), and David O'Donnell (Shaun Sipos) to uncover why friends from their past are all being murdered. The violent mystery is solved by the Reacher season 2 finale, with the bloodied protagonist getting on the bus to his next destination. However, it won't be long before another conspiracy will have to be thwarted.

In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter,...

Norah Jones has returned to announce her ninth studio album, Visions, out March 8th. She’s also mapped out a brief East Coast tour and shared the album’s lead single, “Running.” Stream it below.

Visions serves as Jones’ first album since 2020’s Pick Me Up Off the Floor, and is described in a statement as being about “feeling free, wanting to dance, making it right, and acceptance of what life brings.” Produced by Leon Michels, Visions features a more uplifting and soulful sound than her previous record.

“The reason I called the album Visions is because a lot of the ideas came in the middle of the night or in that moment right before sleep, and ‘Running’ was one of them where you’re half asleep and kind of jolted awake,” Jones said in a press release. “We did most of the songs in the same way where I...

Get ready for a hilarious night in the courtroom with “Night Court” as Season 2 Episode 2, titled “The Roz Affair,” airs on NBC at 8:00 Pm on Tuesday, January 2, 2024. The episode promises a delightful mix of chaos and comedy as Dan finds himself entangled in an investigation alongside Roz. However, as they navigate the twists and turns, things take an unexpected turn, leading them to plead their case in front of the formidable Abby.

Adding to the laughter, Gurgs takes center stage, regaling the court with entertaining tales of her adventures in London. Expect a cascade of anecdotes that will have you in stitches.

Meanwhile, Olivia, the ever-ambitious character, tries her hand at establishing a side gig as a sports agent, setting the stage for a subplot filled with her signature wit and determination.

“Night Court” Season 2 Episode 2 is a must-watch for fans of the series, promising a night of comedic...

The Les Arcs Film Festival has unveiled the 13 upcoming features selected for its Work-in Progress showcase.

The selection includes respected French, New York-based artist and filmmaker Marie Losier’s bio-doc Peaches Goes Bananas about Canadian electronic musician Merrill Beth Nisker, aka Peaches.

Danish director Jeppe Rønde, who made waves with mass teen suicide drama Bridgend, is participating with second fiction feature Acts of Love, about a taboo sibling relationship within the confines of a religious community on Denmark’s west coast. (scroll down for full list).

Excerpts from the selected productions will be screened to industry professionals on December 17 as part of the festival’s Industry Village events, which also includes the Coproduction Village.

Both events are taking place within the framework of the festival’s 15th edition running from December 16 to 19 in the French Alps resort of Les Arcs.

The showcase received a record 181 project submissions this year, 38% of which are directed women.

What feels like 95% of the broadcast-tv workforce returns to set today, with several stars from prolific producer Dick Wolf’s Law & Order, FBI and #OneChicago franchises sharing on social media their respective excitement.

FBI‘s Missy Peregrym, for one, recorded the sweet Instagram video below, noting that while “I sobbed my little head off today” (knowing that she’ll be seeing son Otis, age 3-1/2, and daughter Mela, 18 months, less than she did during the overlapping WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes), she expects to “laugh my head off when I see my other family” from CBS’ FBI on-set Monday.

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In Ben’s second encounter with Hannah on Quantum Leap, he helped her prevent Nazis from using Albert Einstein’s secret formula to alter history, revealed that he was a time traveler and kissed her midsentence in an effortlessly romantic gesture.

Wednesday’s eventful leap to Princeton University in 1955 also placed Ben in the awkward situation of working alongside Tom, the army man who currently oversees the Quantum Leap project and happens to be dating his ex-fiancé Addison. He wasn’t exactly thrilled about it, but their forced proximity delivered several amusing moments and showcased a different side to the usually optimistic time leaper.

Tariq Trotter, a.k.a. Black Thought, has given the world endless insight into his mind in the 35-plus years since he founded the Roots with his high school classmate Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson. But even after all those richly detailed lyrical flights and legendary live shows, he began to suspect he was holding something back. “It still felt as though there was a disconnect, and that fans of my work didn’t know me, the person, as well as they should or could after all this time,” he says. “So...

Pascal Breton’s Federation Studios has launched an international theatrical sales label, Ginger & Fed, teaming up with former TF1 Studio sales executive Sabine Chemaly’s Ginger Films on the new division.

Chemaly will head up the new group, handling both film acquisitions and international sales, focusing on titles with theatrical potential in various international territories. She will work together with Federation’s sales team of Monica Levy, Guillaume Pommier, Sarah Zarka, Lucile Avezard and Jeromine Ader, as well as the company’s business affairs, servicing and marketing teams.

The first project under the new label will be Survive, a post-apocalyptic thriller from Monkey Pack, the Federation Studios-owned producers of Coralie Fargeat’s 2017 action horror hit Revenge. Frédéric Jardin is directing with Émilie Dequenne (Love Affair(s)) and Andreas Pietschmann (Dark) starring as a couple celebrating their son’s birthday on their boat in the middle of the ocean. But when...

Silence speaks volumes in the latest film from Joachim Lafosse. The writer/director uses it as a dramatic tool throughout his film but it also refers to years of unspoken repression in the household run by Francois Scharr.

Daniel Auteuil - surely the Tom Hanks of Gallic cinema - plays against type as the well respected lawyer, who we meet in the middle of a high-profile case, with journalists permanently stationed outside the gates of the lavish home he lives in with wife Astrid (Emmanuelle Devos) and his teenage son Raphael (Matthieu Galoux). Lafosse's fictional tale draws on a real-life Belgian case that became known as the Hissel Affair, in which a high-powered lawyer acting on behalf of a family whose children were killed by a paedophile, himself became subject to scrutiny.

Beginning near the end, we see Astrid at a police station being given the news that Raphael has attempted to.

Every track on My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross feels like a Greek statue frozen in some tragic visage of horror. Anohni’s voice sounds delicate, angry, and exhausted, as she grieves track by track — for the unfulfilled promises of civil rights, for friends lost to drugs and depression, for the immolation of a world succumbing to ecocide. On one song, “Why Am I Alive Now?” her voice quivers and keens as she regards the discord closing in on her (leaves fall off trees, smoke chokes the air,...

Sales company also takes on Janis Pugh’s Great 8 selection ‘Chuck Chuck Baby.’

The Yellow Affair has boarded international sales for Mark Leonard Winter’s feature directorial debut The Rooster starring Hugo Weaving (The Lord Of The Rings) and Phoenix Raei (The Night Agent).

When the body of his oldest friend is found buried in a shallow grave, a small-town cop, forms a strange relationship with a volatile hermit who may have been the last person to see his friend alive.

Winter is an acclaimed actor who previously appeared in The Dressmaker, Elvis and Top of the Lake: China Girl.

Ruth Wilson says she doesn’t think there should ever be a place for non-disclosure agreements in Hollywood.

The His Dark Materials star discussed her stance on their historical use in the industry in a new profile for The Guardian. Published on Saturday, the interview is tied to Wilson’s stage project, The Second Woman at the Young Vic, and how the 24-hour performance consisting of a single scene repeated 100 times on a loop tests and challenges her as a performer.

At one point, the conversation turns to her departure from The Affair, something she once again declines to discuss “in any way, shape or form,” according to the outlet. “I don’t think there should be any NDAs,” she told the outlet when asked if there was a place for them. “If there’s a problem, there’s a problem. It needs to be dealt with, not put under...

The Affair star on #MeToo hypocrisy, the violence of cosmetic surgery, and why she steers clear of social media

Ruth Wilson hitches the skin by her ears to demonstrate how she’d look if she had “those little wires” sewn into her face, by which she means a thread lift. “Just that would make the world of difference,” she says. She is 41 and “everyone” around her talks about Botox “and what to fill their face with”. This is not in response to any question of mine. This is Ruth Wilson freewheeling on how confusing she finds the notion of “female empowerment” in 2023. “As an actress, everyone does it. Very few resist. I haven’t done anything – yet. But it’s in my head as like, ‘Well, do you decide not to and therefore potentially look older than your peers? Or do you just give in?’” Yesterday she read in the...

Exclusive: MGM’s extensive film & TV catalogue, built over the past century, was the main driver behind Amazon’s $8.5B acquisition of the storied Hollywood studio. For the past year, since the deal closed in March 2022, Amazon Studios has been sifting through MGM’s library, identifying about a dozen initial titles for film and/or TV development, including Robocop, Stargate, Legally Blonde, Fame, Barbershop, The Magnificent Seven, Pink Panther and The Thomas Crown Affair.

We hear A-list creative auspices have reached out to inquire about adapting MGM IP which they are fans of. Additionally, Amazon Studios also has been leaning on its own roster of talent for some projects.

Each title is being approached differently — some are being steered toward film, some toward TV and some big ones are getting both movie and TV treatment.

For instance, Amazon Studios is in active early conversation on Legally Blonde, both for a...

Series is adaptation of diaries of Dutch author Etty Hillesum, who was murdered in Auschwitz.

Hagai Levi, showrunner ofThe Affair and Scenes From A Marriage, is writing and will direct the series The Girl Who Learned How to Kneel, which is being produced by Arte France with France’s Les Films du Poisson and the Netherlands’ Topkapi Films.

The loose adaptation of the diaries of Dutch author Etty Hillesum is set in Amsterdam in the late 1930s and early 1940s during the German occupation before she was deported and murdered in Auschwitz. Hillesum was just over age 40 when she wrote the diaries,...

Black Thought and El Michels Affair have shared another new song, “Glorious Game,” featuring Kirby, the title track from their collaborative album, out April 14.

The track is anchored by stuttering drums and a bulbous bass line, with Kirby’s from-the-heavens falsetto on the psych-soul chorus providing the perfect counterbalance to the Black Thought’s crystalline flow. “Glorious Game” is accompanied by an engrossing animated visual (helmed by Gugen Allan) that follows a panther as it roams through an otherworldly dreamscape.

“Glorious Game” is the third song Black Thought and El...

A former Affair baddie will soon find himself on the right side of the law.

ABC on Thursday handed a series order to Will Trent (working title), a one-hour drama starring Ramón Rodríguez (aka Ben “Killer of Alison Bailey” Cruz) based on Karin Slaughter’s bestselling novels.

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The midseason drama follows eponymous Special Agent Will Trent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigations...

The cast includes Oskar Hes, Jan Nedbal and Stefan Konarske.

Helsinki-based The Yellow Affair has boarded international sales for Brothers, a Czech-German co-production directed by Tomas Masin and written by Marek Epstein.

The fast-paced drama is inspired by the true story of two brothers who, in 1953, tried to escape communist Czechoslovakia to join the US army in West Berlin. What ensued was one of the largest manhunts in modern history and the brothers are still hailed by some as heroes and others as murderers.

The cast includes Oskar Hes, Jan Nedbal, and Stefan Konarske.

The producers are Petr Bilek for...

Alright, get all your "Se7en" jokes out of your system now. Ever since our very first look at "Spider-Man: No Way Home," fans have been consumed by one single question: what's in the box??? Okay, that might be a little misleading since the internet is notorious for digging deep into every tiny detail in upcoming superhero movies and picking them apart until all we're left with are countless questions. But when it comes to The Mysterious Affair of Doctor Strange's Box, which we've seen glimpses of so...

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We're pretty much in everlasting love with this video. For anyone who knows Jamie Dornan primarily as the steely Christian Grey in Fifty Shades of Grey, the idea of him singing an upbeat melody might be a little hard to imagine. But that's the magic of acting, baby! And we've got proof of the actor's range in the form of video. The 39-year-old star, who hit the red carpet for the Los Angeles premiere of his latest movie, Belfast, on Nov. 8, took to the stage during the film's afterparty and—well, wowed the crowd. Jamie, who hails from the film's titular Northern Ireland city, sang a rendition of "Everlasting Love" by Love Affair,...

An epic love story will not be taking flight at ABC.

The network has officially scrapped its fairytale drama from Once Upon a Time creators Adam Horowitz and Eddy Kitsis.

The cast of the potential series was set to be led by Brittany O’Grady (Little Voice), who played cynical princess Luna, and Eleanor Fanyinka (Holby City), who played a mysterious character known as The Seer.

Modern Family's Sarah Hyland was also set to appear in the project as a princess named Rose.

O'Grady was set to be the lead as Luna, with it being revealed that the character is changed by a broken heart.

She does not believe in love stories, but “she is about to find herself caught in the most epic one of all — her own.”

Epic was described as “a romantic anthology series set in the fairytale universe of Disney… taking place in a Disney-like Enchanted Forest.

Catherine FitzGerald is sending a message about her marriage to Dominic West, seven months after his scandal thrust their relationship into the spotlight. As fans may recall, the Affair star made headlines in October for his eyebrow-raising outing in Italy with Lily James, during which Dominic was seen kissing her neck. After the Pda pictures of the Pursuit of Love co-stars emerged, Dominic and Catherine—who share four kids together—told reporters their 10-year marriage remains "strong." Now, in a new interview with the Irish Independent, Catherine, a landscape designer, reflected on the couple's "ups and downs" over the years. After meeting...